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Routing URLs to Django views and functions

Now, we have to create a new Python file named urls.py in the toys folder, specifically, the toys/urls.py file. The following lines show the code for this file, which defines the URL patterns that specify the regular expressions that have to be matched in the request to run a specific function previously defined in the views.py file. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_03_01 folder, in the restful01/toys/urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import url 
from toys import views 
 
urlpatterns = [ 
    url(r'^toys/$', views.toy_list), 
    url(r'^toys/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', views.toy_detail), 
] 

The urlpatterns list makes it possible to route URLs to views. The code calls the django.conf.urls.url ...